THE GOD BUSINESS novel was released by Whiskey Creek Press in June 2010.
As other dates are determined they will posted here.
You may read a sample chapter on their web site www.whiskeycreekpress.com.
My skills as a technical author, speaker and inventor (19 US patents with foreign equivalents) have been recognized in the medical device industry for several years. The first time I was published was in the National High School Poetry Anthology. My mother paid an agent to review an attempt at a novel the same year. He gave me encouragement stating I had talent, but made it clear I had a lot to learn about the craft and needed real life experience. Education and focus on a technology career led to numerous technical articles and journal publications while serious fiction waited for a window of opportunity.
Mainstream Novel:
Joshua is the founding CEO of a huge evangelistic organization. Over the course of a hectic week on the road in Denver, Reno and Anaheim he struggles with difficulties involving his original partners; Bobby is the star evangelist/healer and Cheryl handles administrative affairs. They started the business 25 years before while in college. Now billions of dollars are at stake as Joshua must deal with mysterious details of a blackmail situation, the disintegration of Bobby's personality, a takeover attempt by politicians, and problems with his spouse. His conscience forces him into dangerous action to protect their staff and the supporting flock.
Mainstream Novel:
Dolly is a young four time widow, with three children, determined to start a restaurant to support them in May 1906. She succeeds in an era when women seldom owned businesses. It was not her intent to marry again. An often comical relationship develops the next seven years with Ernest, the bachelor barber at the other end of the building who takes every meal in her establishment. Both have problems to solve. Her quick temper and inability to forgive others for past actions make it difficult to achieve introspection into her own misdeeds. He is quietly thoughtful, yet oversensitive about his stature; he fears female rejection. Follow their comical courtship into a shocking wedding night and through attempts to resolve their basic problems midst dealing with new family and national problems. The story plays out through integral historic aspects of five California cities and towns.
Story titled
"A DREAM?"
40 international authors:
Small
excerpt from A Dream?
The being felt a powerful expulsion and a dizzying sensation. A steady
increase in temperature and wind velocity was ended by a jarring collision.
That was followed by what seemed a long skid on a bumpy surface which
made a horrific clattering sound. Movement stopped. There was silence
and a dense fog like darkness. The atmosphere grew frigid. Detached
consciousness began shifting to terrified awareness. The being wanted
to cry out for help but had no vocal system. There were no limbs to
move, or muscles to flex. The clattering sounds had been heard. Wind
and temperature changes were felt. That clearly meant there was sensory
perception. Thoughts and emotions were present. An attempt to assess
the situation caused it to think "Where the hell am I, and why?"
Story titled
"ROCK VISIONS"
26 international authors:
Both anthologies
are published by Hadley Rille Books and edited
by Eric T. Reynolds. Visit the web site for other fine anthologies,
novels and ordering information.
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Small
excerpt from Rock Visions
Agonizing screams from the communal birthing hut echoed loud off the
nearby hills. They brought tension to the village. Several adult women
were gathered around the hut chanting an ancient prayer while exchanging
expressions of sorrow and sympathy. Sweet-Girl had grown extremely huge
before the delivery pains started. Men around the central campfire with
the older children were uneasy.
Her mate of nine months sat alone inside the large rock and log structure
where many generations had lived. Four of those generations squatted
outside as insisted upon by Swift-Feet's father, a kind and gentle man
known as Wise-Bear.
The family elder sensed his third son needed to avoid anyone seeing
the unmanly cringes certain to follow the periodic outbursts of his
mate. There was no reason to expose the man of seventeen summers to
possible question of his mental and physical fortitude. He was sure
the sensitive young brave had never dreamed the coupling with Sweet-Girl
would lead to such agony.
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